Guest post: Getting relationships right in-house

Guest post: Getting relationships right in-house

Juliet Oliver, general counsel of the Solicitors Regulation Authority

A panelist at our recent conference for in-house solicitors compared the client-lawyer relationship to a romantic one. If private practice is a fling, working in-house is a marriage.

As someone who has worked both in-house and in private practice, I can say that both rely on the ability to build and maintain strong long-term relationships, balancing the need for familiarity with independence, trust with due inquiry. Continue reading “Guest post: Getting relationships right in-house”